The spokesman for the house, Mike Johnson from Louisiana, talks to a weekly press conference on Tuesday, June 24th, 2025, in the US Capitol on Tuesday, June 24th on Tuesday, June 24th. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
Washington – The Republicans of the Republicans of House will go home early after turmoil in August after a turmoil because of the publication of the Jeffrey Epstein files has stopped almost any possibility of a floor campaign.
The spokesman for the House, Mike Johnson, said on Tuesday that he sent his members back to their districts until September to avoid “political games” that relate to a cross -party efforts that put pressure on the release of state investigative documents on Epstein. The financier was one Florida sex perpetrator According to the authorities, his prison cell died in New York City in 2019, where he was waiting for the trial against the sex trade in the federal government.
Epstein enjoyed a wide circle of wealthy, powerful friends, including President Donald Trump. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that it checked a birthday greeting from Trump to Epstein in 2003, which contains a cryptic message and hand -drawn naked woman, who immediately leads Trump sue The publication.
“We are maximum transparency. We are currently concerned. We don’t need political games,” said Johnson at a weekly press conference, where the Republican in Louisiana was asked by his own members for an effort to force the release of fall material.
The GOP MP Thomas Massie from Kentucky has listed the California Democratic MP Ro Khanna in order to force a vote on what is generally referred to as Epstein files. The proceedings, which is referred to as a discharge petition, could be ready for the soil in September if Massie and Khanna can collect signatures from a majority of members.
“I don’t understand Thomas Massie’s motivation. I don’t. I don’t know how his mind works,” continued Johnson.
He said the white house needed “space” to create documents and is in the process of release materials in connection with the Epstein case.
“There is no purpose for the congress to get the administration to do something that is already doing,” he said.
On a separate route, the GOP-led house rules, the last stop for legislation before it reaches the ground, on Monday evening, before the Democrats in the committee were able to force their Republican colleagues, to coordinate changes in connection with the release of the Epstein information.
The invoices defined in this committee, which mostly have to do with immigration, approval and public countries, will no longer go to the ground this week.
Last Floor votes are planned for Wednesday afternoon. House members will only return on September 2.
Interview with Ghislaine Maxwell wanted
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced On social media on Tuesday that the public prosecutors of BUND are looking for an interview with Epstein’s unique friend Ghislaine Maxwell, who condemns a long prison sentence conspiracy With the financier to sexually abuse girls.
Trump said reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday that the attempt by the department of interviewing Maxwell “adequately” and added that he was not informed about the matter and downplayed the relevance of the Epstein case.
“I don’t know about it, but I think it’s something that … sounds appropriate,” he said.
Blanche was Trump’s personal criminal defense lawyer. When asked whether Blanche’s participation in the interview spoke out any concerns, Trump said no. Democrats used Trump’s social relationship with Epstein to imply that he could have been aware of the illegal activities of Epstein.
Trump asked Reporters to drop the Epstein case and to concentrate on A instead recent explanation The director of the National Secret Service Tulsi Gabbard, former President Barack Obama, ordered an investigation into the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which Trump finally won. Democrats sentenced The report.
Trump tries to release Epstein turmoil
Trump has spent clamorous concerns from Republicans and his voter base since a Ministry of Justice on July 7th memo denied the existence of an Epstein customer list and came to the conclusion that the department would not publish any of the files.
After Trump received intensive criticism, Trump ordered the department to publish the Grand Jury’s statement on July 17th.
The President described his followers “weaklings” because he was concerned in a post on July 16 on his online platform -Crece. Trump too told Reporter last week that the so-called Epstein files were “invented” by former President Obama and Joe Biden.
The supporters of the President, including members of his current administration, have been committed to unpublished details about the participation of the financier in the sex trade, including the possible names of customers and the circumstances in relation to Epstein’s death.
Accordingly Federal load documentsEpstein, sexually abused dozens of girls of teenage in his residences in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida. The Ministry of Justice has concluded that Epstein probably had more than 1,000 Victim.
Jacob Fischler contributed to this report.
